TY  - BOOK
AU  - König,Christiane
TI  - Performative Figures of Queer Masculinity: A Media History of Film and Cinema in Germany Until 1945 
SN  - 9783476058881
U1  - 791.409 23
PY  - 2022///
CY  - Stuttgart
PB  - J.B. Metzler, Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Motion pictures-History
KW  - Queer theory
KW  - Performing arts
KW  - Theater
KW  - Ethnology-Europe
KW  - Culture
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Film and TV History
KW  - Queer Studies
KW  - Theatre and Performance Arts
KW  - European Culture
KW  - Film Theory
KW  - Gender and Culture
N1  - Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Empire/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 3. Weimar Republic/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- Chapter 4. National Socialism/Germany: Film and Cinema, Gender and Sexuality -- Chatper 5. Concluding Remarks.-
N2  - The work in media cultural history is a German history of cinema and film from the 1890s to 1945 with a focus on queer masculinity. Using media studies approaches, the study shows how film as a new medium is constituted through performative re-enactments of spectacular elements from the entertainment and knowledge cultures of the 19th century. In it, bodies, desires and identities are constantly remodelled through the formation of difference. Therefore, male queerness here does not mean the representation of male homosexuality. Rather, it is the dynamic result of complex medial processes, in connection with affects and (self-)cognitions on and off screen. This book is a translation of an original German 1st edition Performative Figuren queerer Männlichkeit by Christiane König, published by J.B.Metzler, imprint of Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature in 2020. The translation was done with the help of artificial intelligence (machine translation by the service DeepL.com). The author (with the friendly support of Megan Hanson) has subsequently revised the text further in an endeavour to refine the work stylistically. Springer Nature works continuously to further the development of tools for the production of books and on the related technologies to support authors
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-05888-1
ER  -